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5 Factors For Choosing The Best Web Host

YoungUpstarts

You probably already know how crucial it is for you to choose the best web host for your website’s success; you do have to determine the things that you should consider when choosing the right one for your needs. While there are several factors that should be taken into consideration when choosing a web host, here are 5 of the most important ones. For more points of consideration, MangoMatter has a decent page on website hosting for India.

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HOT? Yes. And by the way I’m talking about Hotel Occupancy Tax

Austin Startup

On a balmy August morning last week, community and tech leaders populated a long conference room table at Capital Factory and listened to Mayor Adler passionately articulate the Downtown Puzzle which includes the expansion of the Austin Convention Center. I had previously breezed by headlines in the Statesman , the Business Journal and Community Impact and admittedly filed it in my “learn more later” folder, not being able to quickly discern whether this was or was not a positive move for Austin

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10 Principles For Surviving New Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

As the economy flourishes after some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. I applaud this trend, but caution all of you thinking this direction to approach entrepreneurship with your eyes wide open. It is not for everyone, as the entrepreneur’s path is fraught with challenges.

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Entrepreneur vs Intrapreneur: Understanding The Difference

YoungUpstarts

by Tricia Hussung . The term “intrapreneur” first appeared in the 1980s when management consultants Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot published “ Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur “ In this book, they defined intrapreneurs as “dreamers who do. Those who take a hands-on responsibility for creating innovation of any kind, within a business.”.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Women entrepreneurs, now is the time to pursue your startup ideas

The Next Web

In entrepreneurship, female founders are still few and far between. However, they certainly are on the rise. According to a study done by Kaufman, female entrepreneurship saw the biggest increase in the past 20 years. Every month, 260 out of every 100,000 women choose to pursue their dream of becoming an entrepreneur. In addition, a report by the American Express State of Women 2016 stated that four out of every 10 new entrepreneurs are women.

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Boston Marathon — Boston Marathon Official Charity Program

Austin Startup

Currently serving as executive chairman, CEO, and founder of Dosh in Austin, Texas, Ryan Wuerch was driven by the desire to create a business that would shift millions of dollars of wasted advertising to people. Dosh is an app that hunts down offers and coupons and automatically converts it to cash by depositing into the users Dosh wallet. Dosh eliminates the need to cut coupons or scan receipts to get cash back.

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Weekend Favs August 26

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs August 26 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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